Sunday, November 12, 2017

A special investigation team of the Karnataka Police is within striking distance of those involved in the September 5 killing of journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh and the results of their investigation will be evident later this month, Karnataka Home Minister Ramalinga Reddy said here on Saturday. Reiterating that the team had identified the persons involved in the murder, he said further details would be revealed within a couple of weeks.

“Unlike in the murder cases of (Narendra) Dabholkar and (Govind) Pansare (in Maharashtra), the SIT has definite clues and knows the identities of the people behind the murder of Gauri Lankesh. Their identities will be revealed this month,’’ said Reddy.

Sources in the SIT confirmed that they had been able to identify key components of the case, and the individuals engaged for these tasks. As many as four persons have been identified and some technical data is awaited to clear all doubts, sources said.

Lankesh, 55, was shot dead outside her home in west Bengaluru on the evening of September 5, after she returned home from work. A CCTV camera in her front yard captured the killing.

The SIT has found that Lankesh’s killers studied her home and activities not just on the day of the murder, but also a few weeks prior to it. (Source: Indian Express)

According to media reports, the accused shot Mohammad Shami near his resident. Shami was also a history sheeter.

According to news, in the recently concluded Uttar Pradesh state assembly elections, Mohammad Shami had contested against six times winner from the Kunda constituency Raghuraj Pratap Singh urf Raja Bhaiya.

Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Varanasi: RJD Supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav also campaigning for Sapa and Congress in UP Election 2017. Today he sought to liken BJP-led NDA governments on last November demonetisation decision and also attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

He told 'It was not notbandi but nasbandi carried out by the Modi government on crores of people, who were forces to stand in queue for withdrawing their own money from the banks.

Sunday, January 8, 2017

Puducherry, 8 January: Kiran Bedi announced that she would demit office as Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry in May next year on completion of two year due to growing differences with the Congress-led government.

Kiren Bedi statement comes day after the Congress MLAs sought Center's intervention complaining Bedi's style of functioning in the backdrop of her cancelling a circular issued by Puducherry Chief Minister V. Narayanasamy.

Earlier, Kiran Bedi declared a circular issued by Narayanasamy, banning the use of social media applications such as Facebook and WhatsApp for official communication, as 'null and void', stating that such as order falls in contravention of guidelines and rules and policies.

She told, 'If Puducherry has to be a progressive UT, it cannot be retrograde in communications. Hence Chief Minister Narayanasamy decision stands cancelled.

The notification issued by the Chief Minister Narayanasamy on December 2, last year directed all government employees to desist from using social media for official works, stating that the server of these multinational countries based outside the country.

Friday, December 2, 2016

Kolkata, 2 December: The Bhartiya Janta Party has hit back at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for politicising the moch drill conducted by the Indian Army and alleged that she is least bothered about her state and of late has been campaigning across the country against the Center's demonetisation move.

BJP leader Rahul Sinha said "It's so ridiculous that the CM does not know about the mock drill of the army, which takes place every three to four hour years. It is quite strange that the CM is not aware about it even as the CM and state administration has proper knowledge about the same".

Mamata Banerjee has said that she is waiting at at the Bengal State Secretariat "to guard democracy" as the army is still stationed at the spot even hours after she expressed her apprehensions on the same.

Mamata Banerjee described the event as extremely unfortunate.

She tweeted "Very unfortunate. Army stationed in front of Nabanno, the Bengal State Secretariat in a high security zone, in-spite of police objection,"

She also said 'this move clearly violates the nation's federal structure, she said "The state was not informed about this development. In a federal structure, the functions of Center and state are clearly divided. But this act clearly violates our jurisdiction".